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When he left the Thessalonians to share the gospel elsewhere, the apostle Paul feared that these Christians would be overwhelmed by false teachers, persecution, and temptations. He wrote two letters to encourage them to remain faithful. These letters offer rich hope and remain good reading for Christians faced with challenges to their faith.

INTRODUCTION TO 1 THESSALONIANS The City of Thessalonica Where was Thessalonica? What kind of city was it? If you had lived in the Roman Empire at the time when this letter was written, you would have known something about Thessalonica as surely as most Americans know at least a few things about Chicago and St. Louis. Thessalonica was a large and important city of the Roman Empire. It had a population close to two hundred thousand. It was a leading city of the Roman province of Macedonia and thus

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